Best Selling Books by Ilan Stavans

Ilan Stavans is the author of Translation as Home (2024), The Lives of the Saints (2011), O que é civilização? (2004), Fútbol (2011), El ojo en la nuca (2014).

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Translation as Home

release date: Apr 15, 2024
Translation as Home
This collection presents a series of autobiographical meditations by Ilan Stavans on how language defines every aspect of our life.

The Lives of the Saints

release date: Jan 01, 2011

O que é civilização?

release date: Jan 01, 2004
O que é civilização?
Trata de questões como linguagem e identidade, cultura e globalização. Explora o tema da cultura hispano-americana e o idioma "spanglish", para demonstrar como a população latin tornou-se um influência na literatura, artes, música e política dos Estados Unidos.

Fútbol

release date: Sep 22, 2011
Fútbol
This insightful compilation offers interdisciplinary views on soccer among Latinos. In contrast with its relative lack of popularity in the United States, elsewhere, professional soccer is a hugely popular sport whose key players rival movie stars in popularity and influence. For many Latinos, especially those who emigrated to the United States, it is the game of choice. While Latino players are still not a major force in U.S. soccer, Latino fans certainly are, comprising, by one estimate, 45 percent of Major League Soccer attendees. Seeking to explain the allure and the influence of soccer among Latinos, particularly those living in the United States, Fútbol offers a collection of essays that treat the game from a wide variety of perspectives. These essays—including reminiscences and impressionistic assessments—touch on topics as diverse as politics, religion, sociology, marketing, athletics, and gender relations as they attempt to contextualize soccer in the Latino community.

El ojo en la nuca

release date: Apr 02, 2014
El ojo en la nuca
En tiempos de las redes sociales la conversación es un arte en decadencia. Se trata de una pérdida significativa. Para Borges, la cultura se originó gracias a «unos cuantos griegos conversadores». Quien dialoga se sirve de la inteligencia en forma libre y gratuita; aplaza las certezas, las opiniones definitivas, la voluntad de tener razón, y descubre con asombro ideas propias. A contrapelo de la celeridad contemporánea, Stavans y Villoro se han servido de internet para dialogar dilatadamente, como lo hubieran hecho en un café, explorando su pasión común por la literatura y las circunstancias en que ocurre. Nacido en México, Stavans vive en Estados Unidos, donde escribe en español, inglés y espanglish. Por su parte, Villoro entiende los viajes como una oportunidad de volver a México. Las diferencias de formación y el hecho de que los autores se hubiesen frecuentado poco, permitieron que el intercambio fuera un sorprendente proceso de conocimiento mutuo. El ojo en la nuca es una conversación en tono suelto, atrevido, que incluye las hipótesis, las confesiones, los desahogos, las bromas, las anécdotas y las interpretaciones que no siempre llegan a la versión definitiva de los textos pero los sustentan en secreto. En este singular y fascinante intercambio de perspectivas, el ojo sólo podía estar en la nuca.

La Condicion Hispanica

release date: Nov 06, 2001
La Condicion Hispanica
Producto de muchos años de lectura, apreciación y asimilación del arte hispánico, este excelente volumen reúne las disquisiciones del autor en torno a la idiosincracia latina dentro del ámbito anglosajón, particularmente el estadounidense, y sus tentáculos a lo largo y ancho de todas las Américas. La intensa interacción entre las culturas sajona y latina, cuyo principal escenario-pero no el único-es el río Grande, proporciona material abundante para analizar las conductas de los diversos grupos étnicos que conviven cotidianamente en los Estados Unidos. Las relaciones inequitativas de poder que por lo general producen los asiáticos y latinos son el tema de numerosas obras literarias y fílmicas a las que el autor recurre para tocar los distintos ángulos del tema central. Esta obra memorable es el resultado de una vida compartida en dos ámbitos culturales más que de un trabajo premeditado y regular de investigación, Stavans, a quien los medios de comunicación norteamericanos han descrito como "un Alexis de Tocqueville moderno" y "un ensayista de la más fina calidad intelectual en la línea de Edmund Wilson y Octavio Paz". Ilán Stavans nació en México, en 1961. Cursó estudios de posgrado en la Universidad de Columbia, y ahora tiene la cátedra Lewis-Sebring de cultura latina y latinoamericana en Amherst College. Colabora con artículos y reseñas en diversas publiciones periódicas estadounidenses, como The Washington Post, The New York Times y The Nation, entre muchas otras. En 1992 obtuvo el Premio Latino de Literatura; en 1994 fue nominado para el National Book Critics Circle Award for Excellence in Book Reviewing; y en 1998 obtuvo la beca Guggenheim. Su vasta obra, que incluye las colecciones de ensayo Art and Anger y The Riddle of Cantinflas, así como la autobiografía On Borrowed Words, ha sido traducida a media docena de lenguas.

Quixote

release date: Sep 13, 2016
Quixote
A groundbreaking cultural history of the most influential, most frequently translated, and most imitated novel in the world. The year 2015 marks the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of the complete Don Quixote of La Mancha—an ageless masterpiece that has proven unusually fertile and endlessly adaptable. Flaubert was inspired to turn Emma Bovary into “a knight in skirts.” Freud studied Quixote’s psyche. Mark Twain was fascinated by it, as were Kafka, Picasso, Nabokov, Borges, and Orson Welles. The novel has spawned ballets and operas, poems and plays, movies and video games, and even shapes the identities of entire nations. Spain uses it as a sort of constitution and travel guide; and the Americas were conquered, then sought their independence, with the knight as a role model. In Quixote, Ilan Stavans, one of today’s preeminent cultural commentators, explores these many manifestations. Training his eye on the tumultuous struggle between logic and dreams, he reveals the ways in which a work of literature is a living thing that influences and is influenced by the world around it.

Bandido

release date: Jan 01, 2003
Bandido
"The Hispanic Malcolm X. Writer. Activist. Civil rights attorney. Contemporary of Hunter S. Thompson''s. Man prone to excesses. Man of vision. All describe Oscar "Zeta" Acosta. A leading figure in the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and early 1970s, he seemed to be everywhere and have a profound influence on everyone in El Movimiento. In 1974, after a last phone call to his son, Acosta disappeared in the Mexican state of Mazatlan." "Bandido reconstructs - even reinvents - the man behind the myth. Part biographical appraisal, part reflection on the legacy of the civil rights era, Bandido is an opportunity to understand the challenges and pitfalls Latinos face in finding a place of their own in America." --Book Jacket.

Lotería!

release date: Jan 01, 2004
Lotería!
Pairs riddles in English and Spanish with a set of cards for the Mexican board game known as "Loterâia" designed by a contemporary Mexican American artist.

Prontuario

release date: Jan 01, 1992

Manual del imperfecto reseñista

release date: Jan 01, 1989

La pluma y la máscara

release date: Jan 01, 1993
La pluma y la máscara
En esta obra Il n Stavans aborda, de manera innovadora, la antiqu sima discusi n de la intertextualidad de las obras literarias. Usando ejemplos correctos, Stavans nos muestra que todo libro es una reinterpretaci n de otros. de este modo, una creaci n escrita se convierte en un peque o universo donde convive una multiplicidad de mundos narrados.

Antihéroes

release date: Jan 01, 1993

Encyclopedia Latina

release date: Jan 01, 2005
Encyclopedia Latina
In its four volumes, 650 entries, 2000 pages and 1.2 million words, Encyclopedia Latina explores every aspect of Latino life in America from a myriad of perspectives, spanning the arts, media, cuisine, government and politics, science and technology, business, health, and sports, among others. While the collection represents an important cultural point of reference and source of pride for Latino youth, it will also serve the interests of an increasingly diverse American population who can all relate to the themes and stories included in this resource.

La condición Hispánica

release date: Jan 01, 1999
La condición Hispánica
Producto de muchos aos de lectura, apreciacin y asimilacin del arte hispnico, este excelente volumen rene las disquisiciones del autor en torno a la idiosincrasia latina en el mbito anglosajn, particularmente estadunidense, y sus tentculos a lo largo y ancho de todas las Amricas. Stavans incluye una cronologa de hechos histricos y de creacin de obras importantes de arte y la literatura latinas al norte del ro Bravo, adems, de una bibliografa y una filmografa completas sobre el tema.

Once@9:53am

release date: Oct 14, 2016
Once@9:53am
"At 9:53 on the morning of July 18, 1994, a suicide bomber drove a Renault Trafic van loaded with explosives into the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina, a Jewish community center in the bustling commercial neighborhood of Once, Buenos Aires. The explosion left eighty-five people dead and over three hundred wounded. Originally published amid widespread controversy, Once@9:53am: Terror en Buenos Aires imagines the two hours before the attack through the popular format of the fotonovela. At 9:53 on the morning of July 18, 1994, a suicide bomber drove a Renault Trafic van loaded with explosives into the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina, a Jewish community center in the bustling commercial neighborhood of Once, Buenos Aires. The explosion left eighty-five people dead and over three hundred wounded. Originally published amid widespread controversy, Once@9:53am: Terror en Buenos Aires imagines the two hours before the attack through the popular format of the fotonovela. Part documentary, part fiction, this vivid retelling of Argentina''s deadliest bombing depicts a vibrant, complex urban community in the hours before its identity was forever changed. This expanded English edition includes a new essay by Ilan Stavans detailing the aftermath of the attack and the faulty investigations that have yet to yield any arrests or reach resolution."--Provided by publisher.

Once@9:53 am

release date: Jan 01, 2011
Once@9:53 am
Once 9:53 is set in Buenos Aires'' historically Jewish Once neighborhood, in the hours leading up to the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center building.

Laughter Matters

release date: Jan 28, 2016
Laughter Matters
A critical dialogue focused on intellectual and comedic approaches to humor from the wildly inventive minds of Ilan Stavans and Frederick Luis Aldama.

The Oven

release date: Jan 01, 2018
The Oven
"After a chance meeting with a shaman in Colombia, Ilan Stavans, the highly regarded literary scholar, found himself in the Amazon rainforest. He had reluctantly agreed to participate in a religious ceremony that involved taking the hallucinogen ayahuasca. Even though he considered himself a skeptic and a rational intellectual, as someone whose worldview was defined by his education and his heritage as a Mexican Jew, Stavans found that the ritual pushed him to reconsider many of his basic understandings, including his perceptions of indigenous cultures in Latin America, as well as his career as teacher, thinker, and artist. This one-act play is delivered in the form of a lecture that mimics the author''s startling spiritual journey. The book includes twenty-five bold images, in color and black and white, which capture the author''s performance of the play: --

The one-hand pianist and other stories

release date: Jan 01, 1996

Gabriel García Márquez

release date: Jan 01, 2010

Borges and the Jews

release date: Oct 01, 2007

Wachale!

Wachale!
A bilingual collection of poems, stories, and other writings which celebrates diversity among Latinos.

El arte de la memoria

release date: Jan 01, 1990

The New World Haggadah

release date: Oct 01, 2015

El mundo al revés

release date: Jan 01, 2010

¿Qué Es la Hispanidad?

release date: Jan 01, 2011

Días de diccionario

release date: Jan 01, 2006

Manual del (im)perfecto reseñista

release date: Jan 01, 1989
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